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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Professor Sees Hope in Young Catholics at Elite Colleges

Robert Oscar Lopez, a professor at California State University at
Northridge, describes a recent Love and Fidelity Network conference at
Princeton University as “a dose of good news in otherwise depressing
times.”

“The Love and Fidelity Network is an intercollegiate organization
dedicated to promoting sexual integrity and strengthening the
institution of marriage,” Lopez explains. He adds:

What struck me was the students' earnestness and
faith. I almost regret that other conservatives could not have been
there to absorb their energy, for there was no clue in the voices of
these student organizers that "the culture is lost," "our decline is
irreversible," or "the end of marriage is inevitable" -- in other words,
all the powerless and pessimistic mantras that right-wingers throw out
just before they decide to call themselves "moderate" and shut up for
the rest of their careers in public life. These students are fighters …

As a Protestant, I was impressed by the Catholic predominance
but embarrassed, too. There was a time when Protestants were vocal
leaders in socially conservative causes. Now Catholics seem willing to
fight where many evangelicals have liberalized or gone into hiding.

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